Russell drops Ashland from Schedule

**Hoot Gibson** · 09-14-2022, 07:40 PM

(09-14-2022, 03:43 PM)plantmanky Wrote:
(09-14-2022, 01:45 PM)Hoot Gibson Wrote:
(09-14-2022, 01:03 PM)plantmanky Wrote:
(09-14-2022, 11:31 AM)jamesclay Wrote: It doesn't matter who initiated the call. Cheating is cheating.

So then you agree, if Ashland is punished, Boyd should be punished too.
I must be missing something. What should Boyd be punished for?

An athletic coach or any other member of the school staff or team member (including parents and boosters) shall not influence a student even if the student, his or her parents or any intermediary from another school, makes the initial contact

(09-14-2022, 01:47 PM)i82much Wrote:
(09-14-2022, 01:03 PM)plantmanky Wrote:
(09-14-2022, 11:31 AM)jamesclay Wrote: It doesn't matter who initiated the call. Cheating is cheating.

So then you agree, if Ashland is punished, Boyd should be punished too.

Huh, "Boyd" didn't make the phone call a parent did. A parent that was definitely not representing the school since he was obviously trying to shop his kid out of the Boyd County School System. Wouldn't make sense to punish the school.

An athletic coach or any other member of the school staff or team member (including parents and boosters) shall not influence a student even if the student, his or her parents or any intermediary from another school, makes the initial contact

What you are suggesting would be analogous to charging victims of a bank heist with a crime for participating in a robbery. If Ashland's recruitment effort had been successful, then Boyd County would have been the injured party, not an accessory to the heist.